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“Eric Kandel and Neuroscience at Columbia University”

November 20, 2009

8:45 am – 5:30 pm

Columbia University Medical Center

P&S Alumni Auditorium

650 West 168^th Street

Symposium Program

Introduction

8:45 – 9:15 am

8:45 – 8:50            Steven A. Siegelbaum, Ph.D.

Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology

Chair, Department of Neuroscience

Columbia University

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

8:50 – 8:55            Lee Goldman, M.D.

Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences

and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine

8:55 – 9:05            Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D.

John E. Borne Professor of Medical and Surgical Research (in Neuroscience and Pharmacology)

and Dean Emeritus of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine

Columbia University

9:05 – 9:15            John Koester, Ph.D.

Professor of Clinical Neurosciences (in Psychiatry)

Columbia University

Session 1: Eric's former students and post-docs

9:15 – 11:40 am

Jack Byrne, Ph.D., Session Chair

June and Virgil Waggoner Chair and Chairman

Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy

University of Texas Medical School at Houston

9:15 – 9:40             “Memory Formation in Aplysia: The Central Role of ERK”

Thomas J. Carew, Ph.D.

Donald Bren Professor and Chair

Neurobiology and Behavior

School of Biological Sciences

University of California, Irvine

9:40 – 10:05          “Communication Between Synapse and Nucleus During Long-term Neuronal Plasticity”

Kelsey Martin, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Biological Chemistry

University of California, Los Angeles

10:05 – 10:30        “The Molecular Mechanism of Persistence of Memory”

Kausik Si, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Break

10:30 – 10:50 am

10:50 – 11:15        “Genetic Control of Memory Circuits”

Mark Mayford, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

The Scripps Research Institute

11:15 – 11:40        “The Fragility of Long-Term Memory”

Cristina Alberini, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Structural and Chemical Biology, and Psychiatry
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Lunch

11:40am – 12:40pm

Session 2: Eric's friends in Neuroscience outside Columbia

1:15 – 3:00 pm

Roger Nicoll, M.D., Session Chair

Professor, University of California, San Francisco

12:45 – 1:10           “Sluggish Recollections”

Larry R. Squire, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Neurosciences, and Psychology

University of California, San Diego

1:10 – 1:35            “Neural Circuit Analysis of Emotional Behavior in Flies and Mice”

David Anderson, Ph.D.

               Roger W. Sperry Professor of Biology

California Institute of Technology

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

1:35 – 2:00            “Fifty Years of Solitude: Deconstructing a Neural Circuit for Social Behavior”

Cori Bargmann, Ph.D.

Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and Head of Lab
The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

2:00 – 2:25            “Molecular Memories and Protein Conformation Cascades”

Susan Lindquist, Ph.D.

Member

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Professor of Biology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

2:25 – 2:50            “Intracellular Recording in the CNS: Kandel and Spencer and Beyond”

Bert Sakmann, M.D.

Professor and Director Emeritus

Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology

Break

2:50 – 3:05 pm

Session 3: Eric's friends in Neuroscience at Columbia

3:15 – 4:30 pm

Michael E. Goldberg, M.D. Session Chair

David Mahoney Professor of Brain and Behavior in Neuroscience

And Neurology (in Psychiatry & Ophthalmology)

3:05 - 3:30             "Full Character'd with Lasting Memory: A Spinal Perspective on Kandelian Science”

Thomas Jessell, Ph.D.

Claire Tow Professor, Neuroscience, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics

Columbia University

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

3:30 - 3:55             “The Neural Dynamics of Learning about Good and Bad”

C. Daniel Salzman, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry

Columbia University

3:55 - 4:20             “A Quarter Century Channeling Memory”

Steven A. Siegelbaum, Ph.D.

Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology

Chair, Department of Neuroscience

Columbia University

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

4:20 - 4:45          "Dining at the Kandelicatessen: from Schnitzel to Schnitzler"  

                              Richard Axel, M.D.

               University Professor

               Columbia University

                              Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Final Remarks     

4:45 – 5:00 pm      Eric Kandel, M.D

University Professor

Columbia University

Reception

5:00 - 5:30 pm       P&S Alumni Auditorium

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